Daily Republican., 1887-07-29
Our Excursion Rosor t.,

The question arises, why are not the
Delaware Bay resorts made % attrac-
tive - the resorts upon the Chesapeake?
Collips' Beach, Penn and Woodland
Beach can be made - attractive and %
Desirable places Of summer resort %
Tolchester or Bay View upon the
Chesapeake. Woodland Beach ID not
wanting In native forests for picnic
groves and the other places named can
be beautifed by art ~ we'll - other
places. Bay View with probably the
most expensive buildings and dssigus
for pleasure, 1t 10 true WAS made what
It is by the BAltim r, and Ohio Rail-
road Company. That company bought
the ground and laid . line OF tracks to
It, advertis sed and took travel TO II. Are
there no railroad ompanies in Della
ware with eq1Al ambition? Perhaps
they are waiting for the Baltimore and
Ohio 10 come along do wn the peninsula
on the Della ware bay side aud establish
suoh resorts as Bay View and Tol.
chester. Collins Beach and Woodland
Beach have both changed hAnds within
. few years ct very low prices and
they could - easily fall into the hands
Of . railroad company as . private
oompAny. Bay View is thirty -nine
miles from Baltimore and not less than
three thousand visitors day 60 from
Baltimore to 1t. Collins Beach is
about the same distance and Woodland
Bssoh . little farther from PhilAdel.
phia. Would not three or four thou.
sand 60 daily from Philadelphia II
they were improved and made sttrAc-
tive like Tolchester and Bay View?
Wilmington would then be within easy
distance and would swell the mum Der
OF daily visitors at her own DslawAr
Bay resorts. Both Colchester and Bay
V.ew we're abrupt bluffs, long neglected
until . thought struck enterprising
mon that they were Just the places for
picnic and sum mer resorts. Nov see
what they are. Resorts for thousands
every day. SteA An boats from BAlti-
more make two trips day. They can
do the sAms on the Delaware from
Philadelphia TO Woodland Beach, Col-
Inns Beach or Augustine Pier, near
Port Penn, and the people OF Phtladel
phia are ss anxious to have days
outing or to spend the summer at . re-
sort near home ss the people OF Balti.
mole are. and besides there are three
times rs many OF them. Della ware 10
too far behind the times In this respect.
She has her Rehoboth, with the finest
surf bathing In the world, bat 1t Is too
far away for daily visitAtions. II does
veil for parties whom IL suits to make
permanent summer homes, but 1t Is toe
far of for the tens Of thousands in
crowded Philadelphia who want to &c
out for Just day. These places with
in forty or atty miles are just wha. are
needed for them.
The other day . queer argument was
advan oed against Rshobo.h as . water
Ing place and . place Of picnic resort.
The argu ment WAS that interest In 1,
had declined because no intoxicating 4
liquors were permitted to be sold there.
This is . WORKOUT, exploded argumen:
that belongs to an age past and gone.
There were said to have been eight
thousand people at by View yesterdAy
and ye. not an Intoxicated man was Il
be seen upon the grounds. Even II
they brought liquor along In the hiI
pocket they did not use It. 1t WAS alsC
remarked by several that they had mo-
heard . profane oath On the ground
No liquors are sold either there or q
Tolchester. The dancing pavilion, th,
flying horses, the Ice cream saloon, tn
gravity railroad, the tros.ing horses
the magnia cent eating restaurant, th,
music Of the Annapolis Military Cade
band, the bathing, swinging In ham
mocks in the picnic grove, wAnderln
among and Admiring the beau.ifu
fower plants, and many other amuse
ments and sights took up the time o
the excursionists, so tha. there WAS n
time left for stepping the senses In In
toxtcating liquors, even had there beel
any upon the ground. Oa, no; intoxi
eating liquors are no. needed in pla &c
like those. The enterprise OF the Baltl
more and Oaio Railroad Conpan
think 80, snd their heads are general
level upon questions Of pleasure an
profit. We have no doubt whateve
that our own modest little places OF re
sort upon the Delaware will yet outr
yal the Chesapeake resorts, but 1t take
long time for them to catch on to th
moving spiri! Of the age.